One of the advantages of owning a domain name is the ability to create a limitless number of email aliases. I use this to allocate each company that requests an email address a unique one, which makes it a lot easier to spot phishing emails, and track whether a company has used it according to my expectations. A recent browse through my spam email folder showed some egregiously bad spam (obvious frauds, scams, etc) being sent to aliases assigned to companies.

Vision Express

Tumblr (the micro-blogging platform)

JET Photographic, Cambridge

Adobe — suffered a well publicised data theft

LinkedIn — likely someone with whom I am connected since they would then see this email and could import it into their personal address book

Dropbox — dropbox includes this email address when I share files and links with others via its service so again the leakage is probably from a third party

Another surprising result of my browse is that the email address I publish on this website does not get very much automated spam, although it does get the occasional offer of “sponsored posts”.

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Nathan currently lives in London and uses the term ‘cloud’ to explain to people what he does for a living. When not in London, he can be found seeking out exciting cafés and new coffee experiences around the world. (bio…)